A Stunning Body

Let’s be honest with each other.  You want to be thin on your wedding day.  Who doesn’t?  I mean. EVERYONE is going to be staring at your backside for the entire ceremony – that’s at least half an hour!

Problem is, losing weight for your wedding isn’t always so simple.

Consider this: You get engaged.  You become a hurricane of activity: picking out a venue, finding bridesmaid dresses, tasting cakes, designing invitations…. Deliriously happy and in love, you wonder, “Why do brides always freak out? This is so much fun!”

Then you hit the six-month mark, and a friend asks, “Hey, how’s the wedding diet going?” Code for: “Better start losing weight.”

Hint taken. You start existing on a diet of low-fat cottage cheese and grapes. Yum yum.

You’re feeling pretty good the first few weeks.  The pounds are just falling off.  You’re so wound up with bridal energy, you barely feel like eating. You can’t even finish your cottage cheese and grapes.  You think, hey, maybe I’ll always be like this: a naturally skinny person!

Not so fast. You’re not giving your body enough energy and nutrition, which means really bad things are about to happen.

First, when you deprive your body of food, it thinks it’s going through a time of famine, and shuts down your metabolism.

Then, it looks around for something to consume. Hey, how about some muscle?  That’s right, your low calorie diet makes your body lose muscle, not just fat. Without the muscle around to burn calories, your metabolism drops even further.  So when your appetite returns after the wedding – and oh, it will – your fat is all set to make the comeback of a lifetime.

But who cares about later? Your clothes are getting loose.  Your clavicles are showing. For now, that’s all that matters, right?

Wrong.

Because without proper nutrition, you start to feel weak, soft and moody.  And then…

BAM! Bridezilla is born.

You start bickering with your fiancé about the guest list. Fuming at your Maid of Honor because she doesn’t want to go sleeveless.  Is it you, or is everyone now against you?

No, it’s you, all right. You’ve become a bitchy, demanding, crazy version of your former self.

No wonder – you aren’t taking care of the most important element of the whole experience, your health.

Luckily, there’s a better way to do this.  A way that is NOT about losing a quick 20 pounds so that you look good for one day, but about being healthy, happy and slim for the REST OF YOUR LIFE.

The Breathtaking Bride program is built on the philosophy that no one diet is right for everyone.  Some people are very happy existing on a diet of raw fruits and veggies while others are moody, exhausted head-cases without meat.  I work with each bride to determine which is the best way to eat for her.

I do believe that healthy weight loss is best achieved through eating whole, organic foods.  The Breathtaking Bride program contains no protein bars, powders or pills because NEWSFLASH those meal replacements are not real food!  They contain so many chemicals and sugar, which actually prevents you from losing weight.

The Breathtaking Bride program is not about going through months of deprivation and torture, because not only will that mess with your metabolism, it creates tons of STRESS!

And as women, what do we do when we are stressed?  That’s right, we eat… and eat and eat.  So instead of always focusing on what you are not allowed to eat, the Breathtaking Bride teaches you what foods to add into your diet in order to nourish your body and create lasting health.

When you start adding in whole grains, organic fruits and veggies, nuts, seeds, high quality protein and really good chocolate, your body will go through a huge transformation.  Your skin will become smooth and elastic, your mood with lighten, you will sleep better, cellulite will disappear, weight will come off in all the right places… you will glow.

When you walk down that aisle people will turn to look at you in your white dress and gasp, “Wow, she is stunning.” Sounds pretty good right?

So, if on your wedding day you want to be the best version of YOU – a you that radiates health, vitality and love – I invite to keep exploring the site . After all, you don’t want to be a skinny, unfit, monster waiting to pile the pounds back on at the start of your honeymoon.

The Breathtaking Bride program is not a diet, it is a lifestyle.  Discover how creating a conscious life is integral to the weight loss equation.